{"id":1248,"date":"2016-11-17T02:11:09","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T02:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"\/blog\/?p=1248"},"modified":"2017-02-07T05:36:25","modified_gmt":"2017-02-07T05:36:25","slug":"sometimes-better-not-pulse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riedon.com\/blog\/sometimes-better-not-pulse\/","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes it is better to not have a pulse"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Wirewound Resistors To Absorb Energy Events<\/h2>\n<p>The source of a pulse can come from many places including lightning, inductive loads (motors), capacitor banks, switchgear, or even switching heating and ventilation systems in and out of a circuit.<\/p>\n<p>A device such as a medical defibrillator needs to dissipate a large amount of energy in a very short time. To protect its electrical components from failure, engineers typically design-in a resistor that can absorb the energy of a very short duration (milliseconds) current surge.<br \/>\nIn a solid-state electricity meter, a resistor is used to absorb the high current generated when a metal oxide varistor (MOV) clamps in response to a voltage surge on the grid.<\/p>\n<p>In many of these types of applications, <a href=\"http:\/\/riedon.com\/resistors\/wirewound\/\">wirewound resistors<\/a> have been engineered to absorb the short duration energy events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wirewound Resistors To Absorb Energy Events The source of a pulse can come from many places including lightning, inductive loads (motors), capacitor banks, switchgear, or even switching heating and ventilation systems in and out of a circuit. 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